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lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
Wed May 9, 2012, 01:52 AM May 2012

Carville: Wake up Democrats; you could lose [View all]

By James Carville, CNN Contributor
Tue May 8, 2012

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The latest Democracy Corps poll was 47-47. The Real Clear Politics average of polls has the president up a whopping three-tenths of a percentage point. And I am hearing the garbage that Democratic donors are telling Democratic fundraisers "Obama has it in the bag."

Newsflash: Nothing is in the bag. Nothing can be taken for granted. Everybody from the precinct door-knocker, to the Chicago high command, to the White House, to the halls of Congress, to the Senate and House committees, to congressional leadership, here is a simple message: If we don't get on the offense, reconnect with the American people, talk about how the middle class is in a struggle for its very existence, hold the Republicans accountable and fight like the dickens, we are going to lose....


http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/08/opinion/carville-democrats-could-lose/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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